Friday, June 10, 2016

A sense of decency

That's what Joseph Welch, a Boston lawyer, asked Senator Joseph McCarthy fifty-four years ago today. This was the beginning of the end of THE scare of the 1950s. Bill Moyers recalls the interchange and gives an example from 2012 of a repeat of McCarthyism by Allan West, a Congressman at that time. Are we seeing another repeat today?


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